National Association of Pension Funds chief executive Joanne Segars believes the Government state pension reforms are affordable and are likely to follow a blueprint she helped draw up with Steve Webb.

Trade body holds crisis talks with the US State Department and the Internal Revenue Service after it emerged data protection legislation will prevent UK providers from complying with complex US disclosure rules.

Forget the mid-term elections and the $600bn QE2 frenzy, the real investment news in the US is to focus on figuring out the fundamentals where savage corporate cost-cutting has brought a suprisingly swift return to high earnings ofr many firms.

Following FCA chief Martin Wheatley’s concerns around contingent charging, Money Marketing examines who charges what for advice and explores how fee models are set to become a key regulatory battleground.